**Legal Manager - Medical Devices Brazil**
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Diversity & Inclusion are essential to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion, or any other trait, YOU are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world.
When You Join Johnson & Johnson, Your Move Could Mean Our Next Breakthrough.
At Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, we are using our breadth, scale, and experience to reimagine the way healthcare is delivered and to help people live longer, healthier lives.
In a radically changing environment, we are making connections across science and technology to combine our own expertise in surgery, orthopedics, and interventional solutions with the big ideas of others to design and deliver doctor and patient-centric products and solutions.
We are in this for life.
We are searching for the best talent for **Legal Manager - Medical Devices Brazil** to be in **São Paulo**, Brazil**.
**Purpose**:
This attorney is a member of the team in charge of legal matters in Brazil for the Medical Devices Business, including Vision Care and Surgical Vision. He/she should be based in São Paulo, Brazil and will be responsible for providing strategic legal advice and counsel in all areas of law, so as to further the interests of the business globally, while protecting the company’s rights, interests and reputation.
**You will be responsible for**:
- Support and advise on complex legal matters for the Medical Device Businesses, by partnering with business and functional clients, and with outside counsel, and by supporting business opportunities while ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, industry guidelines and internal policies;
- Provide legal support to commercial teams and functional areas, on projects and initiatives that are deployed by or for the Medical Devices Businesses, including preparing, reviewing negotiating and implementing complex and innovative commercial agreements, as well as providing strategic legal advice on a wide range of proposed business initiatives and projects in different areas such as sales and marketing, tenders, regulatory affairs, ethics and compliance, privacy, indirect channel management and Mergers & Acquisitions;
- Manage certain outside counsel relationships;
- To the extent that complex problems or specific technical expertise is required, direct the work of outside counsel, define project objectives, and manage projects;
- Serve on projects with multi-disciplinary teams and committees to assess and implement special/significant projects in the local business and/or J&J Global and LATAM Law Department;
- Monitor changes and trends in the Medical Devices industry, including competitive developments and government actions, to identify possible business opportunities and threats;
- Provide appropriate training to local teams and external stakeholders on key legal topics, such as essentials of contract law, competition law, sanctions and anti-boycott laws, anti-corruption laws, public procurement and ethics and compliance, the latter in collaboration with our Health Care Compliance and Privacy organizations;
- Support internal audits and investigations by providing documents and explanations related to audit requests, reviewing findings and developing action plans to address any issues.
- Review and provide legal advice on SOPs and Corporate Policies;
- Review and provide legal advice on marketing materials and internal communications;
- Create and improve templates and processes;
- Participate in the litigation process, by providing documents and information to the cross-sector team, participating in the definition of the case strategy, Identifying and advocating for dispute resolution opportunities to defend the company's interests; and performing managerial review of the litigation portfolio and identify how to prevent future risks;
- Partial Monitoring and Management of MD Legal Department Budget (negotiation of legal fees with Legal Operations);
**Qualifications**
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